It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.
-- A Theory of Moderation
While there certainly are Moderators here, a significant amount of the moderation is done by ordinary people, using the privileges they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.
As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. To that end, here is how the moderation done here on Genealogy & Family History breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:
Action Moderators Community¹
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Users suspended² 1 5
Users destroyed 2 0
Users contacted 2 0
Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 32 48
Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 3 22
Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 9 33
Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 10 98
Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 30 400
Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 11 62
Tags merged 4 0
Tag synonyms proposed 2 0
Tag synonyms created 2 0
Revisions redacted 9 0
Questions reopened 11 0
Questions protected 3 2
Questions flagged⁴ 13 30
Questions closed 101 2
Question flags handled⁴ 40 3
Posts undeleted 3 6
Posts locked 0 4
Posts deleted⁵ 105 120
Posts bumped 0 54
Comments undeleted 1 0
Comments flagged 1 58
Comments deleted⁶ 173 171
Comment flags handled 17 42
Answers flagged 1 161
Answer flags handled 133 29
All comments on a post moved to chat 1 0
Footnotes
¹ "Community" here refers both to the membership of Genealogy & Family History without diamonds next to their names, and to the automated systems otherwise known as user #-1.
² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.
³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.
⁴ Includes close flags (but not close or reopen votes).
⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.
⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).
Wishing you all a happy new year...
